In the trend of 4K video, even the sharing site, YouTube, offers 4K support. But, although YouTube official claims that it supports 4K, many people find it is not easy to upload 4K video to YouTube. it'll take an awful long time, and something even worse, it won't show 4K option for you, but only 1080p sometimes. So what happened?

The reasons that you get failure 4K video uploading to YouTube maybe contains two aspects: a. YouTube has a 15 min limit in usual and your 4K video maybe is longer than the limit; b. Youtube's maximum 4K bitrate is 45Mbps and it doesn't work with 60fps 4k video well. So if your 4K video has more frame rate than the maximum, you maybe can't succeed in uploading your 4K video to YouTube.

If you are not sure whether your 4K video recorded by Canon XC15 is suitable for the YouTube or not, you can do some processing before uploading the Canon XC15 4K MXF video to YouTube. For example, transcode the Canon XC15 4K video to YouTube compatible file type such as MOV, FLV, AVI, 3GP, MPEG-4; Devide 4K files into shorter 15 min sections; Adjust the video parameters of the 4K video to more adapt to YouTube. How to achieve all of these tasks? You can ask help for a Video Converter.

UFUWare Video Converter is a good choice. It can easily convert 4K video to MOV, AVI, 3GP, MPEG-4, etc for YouTube. And with built-in editing tool, you can trim video footage to get a 15 min 4K video clip for YouTube. You are also allowed to adjust video size, codec, frame rate and audio sample rate, bitrate to be more compatible with YouTube.

1. Install and launch the powerful Video Converter as the Canon XC15 to YouTube Converter. Then you can add your Canon XC15 4K MXF videos to the program by clicking "Add Video" button or directly drag and drop the 4K MXF files to the app.

When the Canon XC15 4K MXF to FLV/MOV/3GP/MPEG-4/AVI conversion process finished, you can click "Open Folder" button to locate the generated .flv, .mov, .3gp, .mp4 or .avi files, and then you can upload the converted Canon XC15 4K videos to YouTube simply and smoothly. Just have a try!